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5 questions on Obamas security address
President Barack Obama’s security speech Thursday - covering topics from terrorism and drones to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay - was by far the most sweeping address he’s delivered on the subject since the early months of his first term.He made some concrete announcements, including a lifting of the moratorium he imposed four years ago on returning prisoners to Yemen. And ...
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Obama drones on and on . . .
WASHINGTON - President Obama yesterday said the war on terror "must end" eventually as he called for more restrictive use of drones as part of a "comprehensive" rethinking of US anti-terror policy. In a major speech on national security, Obama floated new procedures to rein in lethal drone strikes that he has authorized repeatedly, and again called for closing the prison at ...
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The United States and Azerbaijan have built a vibrant partnership - John Kerry
US Secretary of State John Kerry congratulates Azerbaijani people on the occasion of 28 May - the Republic Day. 'I am delighted to congratulate the people of Azerbaijan as you observe Republic Day this May 28. The United States and Azerbaijan have built a vibrant partnership, and we are committed to help buttress Azerbaijan’s independence, strengthening its democratic institutions ...
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No Wonder Republican Criticism of Obama Isn’t Working
Henny Youngman, the late borscht belt comedian, told hundreds of politically incorrect jokes. One of them was his response when asked, "How's your wife?" "Compared to what?" he'd say. Many women find the joke tasteless, but it can be a useful framework for thinking about national politics. Americans may not be ecstatic about President Obama and his policies, but ...
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Obama’s Speech Rehashes Gitmo Fight in Congress
President Obama's counterterrorism speech has reopened a long-standing battle on Capitol Hill about what to do with detainees at the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, highlighting sharp divisions even among the president's political adversaries. Influential national-security leaders in the GOP--Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., Saxby Chambliss, R-Ga., and Kelly ...
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Canada to allocate C$53m to Peru-focused mining and energy initiatives
Canadian mining executives hope Prime Minister Stephen Harper's meeting with Peruvian President Ollanta Humala will generate better use of C$4 billion in unspent mining royalties in government ...
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Obama Institutes Guidelines for Drones
US President Barack Obama laid out strict guidelines Thursday for the use of drones outside war zones, for the first time giving the public a window on workings of the secretive anti-terrorist ...
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Obama defends legal drone killings
President Barack Obama has defended America's controversial drone attacks as legal, effective and a necessary linchpin in an evolving US counter terrorism ...
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Irish storm chaser leads tornado recovery efforts
Oklahoma for the last two years, has even been taking part in search-and-rescue teams in the affected areas. He has made the Journey Church in Norman, just outside of Moore, an unofficial base camp, leading several other volunteers eager to do their bit in helping rebuild the community."For many of these people, all of their possessions are gone," he told the Irish ...
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Man shot by FBI linked Boston bomber to triple murder
Boston police believe were committed by Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years before he bombed the city's marathon.Todashev, a 27-year-old Chechen immigrant, reportedly admitted that he and Tsarnaev were responsible for the killings and began to write out a confession, the ...
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Oklahoma faces $2bn disaster damage bill
The tally is based on visual assessments of the extensive damage zone stretching more than 17 miles and the fact that the tornado was on the ground for 40 ...
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As Anti-Gitmo Protester Heckles Obama He Says Her Voice Is Worth Listening To
President Barack Obama at a previous speech at the National Defense University (AP Photo) (CNSNews.com) - President Barack Obama this afternoon was repeatedly interrupted by a female heckler who shouted at him from the audience, apparently to protest that he was not immediately releasing people from the prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where the U.S. government keeps terrorists, such as 9/11 ...
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Americas truth-seeking drone program
if you are interested in contributing. The events of September 11, 2001, serve as a painful reminder that the use unlawful use of force, as designated by the World Court for acts of terrorism, resulted in the costly loss of innocent life. Since Western leaders condemned such acts as wrong and unlawful, it is only logical that Western nations follow by example by avoiding (engaging in) ...
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Obama on precarious legal ground in American deaths by US drone strikes
Jeremy Scahill, national security correspondent for The Nation and author of "Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield," talks with Rachel Maddow about the Obama administration's case for the targeted killing of Anwar al-Awlawk and the legal questions surrounding the 'non-specific targeted' killing of his 16-year-old ...
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Obama backs effective drone hits
Guantanamo Bay detention centre in Cuba and pledged to allow greater oversight of the controversial unmanned drone programme. But he plans to keep the most lethal efforts with the unmanned aircraft under ...
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‘We Can Blow Things Up’ America’s Power in the Middle East
In an article published May 15, 2013, American historical social scientist Immanuel Wallerstein wrote, "Nothing illustrates more the limitations of Western power than the internal controversy its elites are having in public about what the United States in particular and western European states should be doing about the civil war in Syria." Those limitations are palpable in both ...
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Obama curtails use of drones
President Barack Obama talks about his administration's counter-terrorism policy at the National Defense University in Washington. Photograph: Larry ...
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Srikanth Srinivasan will serve with distinction Obama
With his confirmation, Srinivasan has become the first South Asian to be appointed to the top court, amid speculation that he may one day be tapped for the Supreme ...
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Xi-Obama meeting to further define ties
/enpproperty--> BEIJING - Chinese experts said the upcoming summit between President Xi Jinping and his US counterpart Barack Obama will clarify bilateral relations in a broad sense. The Foreign Ministry announced earlier this week that the two leaders will meet from June 7 to 8 in California's Sunnylands following Xi's visit to three Latin American states. It will be their first ...
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Obama balances threats against Americans rights
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Forecasting the changing nature of threats against the U.S. for years to come, President Barack Obama says "America is at a crossroads." And so, too, is his presidency's counterterrorism policy, which has long struggled to balance protecting the nation from terror attacks while upholding Americans' ...
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A Skeptical Celebration of President Obamas Shifty Terrorism Speech
well-crafted speech at National Defense University: he signalled that counterterrorism efforts would change significantly in his second term; and like his predecessor, he avoided mentioning that the forsaken policies were mistakes. Like all presidents, Obama began his tenure with a daunting challenge: a rapid transition from a political campaign to a constant barrage of often intractable, ...
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Americas Corrupt Justice System Federal Private Prison Populations Grew by 784 in 10 Year Span
rose 18 percent , an increase largely reflected by the "drug war" and stringent sentencing guidelines, such as three strikes laws and mandatory minimum sentences. However, total private prison populations exploded fivefold during this same time period, with federal private prison populations rising by 784 percent (as seen in the chart below complied ...
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Safe Room Mandates Remain Rare in Tornado States
After living nearly 20 years in their one-story brick home, Sherry and Larry Wells finally won the lottery -- for a state rebate on a home storm shelter, that is. A contractor finished installing the concrete bunker beneath the slab of their garage in early May. About three weeks later, the shelter saved their lives when a tornado that killed 24 people tore through their neighborhood. Should ...
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Antiwar activist repeatedly interrupts Obamas speech
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama had a run-in with a heckler Thursday, when a founder of the antiwar group Code Pink interrupted his speech.Near the end of Obama's address at the National Defense University, a woman identified as activist Medea Benjamin implored the president to close the Guantanamo Bay prison. Through three episodes, the president traded words with Benjamin, asking her ...
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GUN RIGHTS FIGHTNew York Sheriffs Aim to Challenge New State Law
ALBANY, N.Y. – County sheriffs have asked to join the federal lawsuit challenging New York's tough new gun restrictions, calling some provisions vague and impossible to enforce fairly. The New York State Sheriffs' Association and five individual sheriffs are asking U.S. District Judge William Skretny to add their position to the record. They support gun rights advocates seeking ...
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North America's unknown potential disaster
North America is facing a potential ecological disaster that most people are not even aware of, according to scientists who have been studying the little brown bat (or myotis bat), the most common species of bat in the United States and the wider North American continent.
This is because the bat is under attack by a killer fungus that grows on the bats’ wings during hibernation and causes them to lose body fat and wake early from their sleep, which causes them to eventually die. The fungal infection is said by researchers to be capable of killing off the bat within the next 16 years when their current population, which numbers up to several million, may fall to just 0.01% of present levels. Read more
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